时间:2018-12-02 作者:英语课 分类:美语怎么说


英语课

  Donny 在北京学中文。他的中国朋友要是遇到了不知道用美语怎么说的词,就会来请教他。今天是杨林要问的:忙。

Donny:Hi 杨琳,what's up? I haven't seen you in ages.

YL: 别提了,我最近特别忙,I am really busy! 忙得四脚朝天,怎么说...four feet up!

Donny: four feet up? I can imagine. But in English, we don't say that....You can say I'm up to my neck in work.

YL: I'm up to my neck... in work ? 工作太多,堆到和脖子一样高?被工作压得喘不过气来。这个说法太形象了! 还有别的吗?

Donny: There is another expression 1 that also has to do with body parts. It is "I've got my hands full".

YL: I've got my hands full。我明白了,就是说两手都没闲着。

Donny: Exactly. Oh, I just thought of another one---"I have a lot on my plate".

YL: I have a lot on my plate? plate, p-l-a-t-e, plate 不是盘子么?说盘子里有很多东西,那一定是...忙着吃呢吧?

Donny:That's possible! Anyway, when you say you have a lot on your plate, it means 2 you're busy.

YL: 我知道了。哎呀,我快迟到了,快,再教最后一个。

Donny: Okay, this one will be easier to remember-- I've got a million things to do!

YL: 太夸张了吧! I've got a million things to do! 有一百万件事情等着我去做。

Donny: Right! Now, Yang Lin, tell me what you've learned 3 today!

YL: 今天学到的还真不少。形容特别忙可以说,I'm up to my neck in work,工作堆到脖子了;I've got my hands full, 两手都占着呢;I have a lot on my plate,盘子里堆得满满的。哎呀! 我得赶紧走人了,I've got a million things to do!



1 expression
n.表达,表示,表现,表情,措辞,词句
  • He looked at me without expression.他毫无表情地看着我。
  • Her face was without expression.她的脸上没有表情。
2 means
n.方法,手段,折中点,物质财富
  • That man used artful means to find out secrets.那人使用狡猾的手段获取机密。
  • We must get it done by some means or other.我们总得想办法把它干完。
3 learned
adj.有学问的,博学的;learn的过去式和过去分词
  • He went into a rage when he learned about it.他听到这事后勃然大怒。
  • In this little village,he passed for a learned man.在这个小村子里,他被视为有学问的人。
学英语单词
adiabolist
Aewol
after treatment with copper
All-electric home
alphahelical
apobiosis
arab-style
attitude disturbance
belt slope tension
beragged
blacked out
bottom-freezer
bring sb to reason
cab man
chips with everything
clavises
columbomicrolite (nb-pyrochlore)
cranial capsule
death's-ring
decipherments
distance between rolls
distress signal
earth observation system
ever-smaller
exaltive
Ferrier
foundable
glazing of powder
GLB Act
gyratus
heidorn
height of chest
hitch-
hollow fiber ultra-filtration device
hood hinge rod bracket
howell-jolly body
infector-
ingushetiya (ingush)
insulator string
interwoven fencing
kisser
kricksteins
Legnone, Mte.
limit of detection
LQG problem
lunulet
Macfadyena
marketing name
mean delay time
measuring spoon
mediacies
mine floating device
Morgan City
mould blower
nephrozymosis
nilem
nonradiated
nornicotine
Oppenheimer, Julius Robert
ostranenies
over-budgeted
parrotize
physic garden
picture sharpness
pleasureboat
poury
powerbox
prime culprit
probe-and-drogue
promptuary
proportional speed floating regulator
punched pockets
purchase occasion
Pāng, Nam
quadlet
renormalons
retractable center wheel
riggate
series-tuned circuit
sir francis drakes
sodium alginate,sodium polymannuronate
spade bits
speak evil of sb
speechreads
steep angle bearing
stiffening stick
strength and weakness
superior hemiseptum
surimi
teleological criteria
testing arrangement
tetrapanacis medulla
through train
trench hoe
trilauryl amine
tta
us stock
valvulae conniventes
veneer sewing machine
vibrio vulnificus
Watmuri
West Babylon